Tag Archives: slate

Last Saturday, the Slate Valley Museum offered our first quarry tour in four years. We were not sure if it was actually going to happen. We had to cancel it once because of severe mud at the quarry due to … Continue reading →

Our new exhibit is open! Preserving a Heritage, Building a Community: Carpatho-Rusyns in the Slate Valley tells the story of immigrants from Slovakia and Southern Poland who made the journey to the Slate Valley of New York and Vermont in … Continue reading →

Making use of locally discovered slate, Boston was the hub of early slate gravestone carving. Skulls and cross-bones and epitaphs warning readers that “As I am now, then soon you will be” and to “follow me into the grave” re-enforced … Continue reading →